Example sentences of "the [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this object thus much is effected by works of imagination : — that they carry the mind out of self , and show the possible of the good and the great in the human character . |
| 2 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 3 | Du Camp reports Gustave 's plans for ‘ A Winter in Paris ’ — an extravaganza incorporating the luxury of the Roman Empire , the refinement of the Renaissance , and the faerie of the Thousand and One Nights . |
| 4 | Later , with the shutters closed against the night , the four of them sat within the ingoing of the great fireplace of the hall , on two cushioned benches on either side of the glowing , hissing log fire . |
| 5 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 6 | It says much for the sang-froid of the practised musician that , despite the intrusion of a bomb hoax , both Dame Joan and the orchestra resumed the published programme as if no interruption had occurred . |
| 7 | Lost in the Musick of the whirling Flail , |
| 8 | They turned into World 's End , and opened the door into the peaceful garden where the faithful of the Moravian sect lie buried . |
| 9 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 10 | The pH is the logarithmic expression of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration , whereas the others are measures of the quantity of alkali or acid present in the sample , determined quantitatively between appropriate pH limits . |
| 11 | On the other hand , is the reciprocal of the small-signal voltage gain when the input is open circuit to signals so that . |
| 12 | Ultimately total deposits will increase by £1,000 , the size of the multiplier being the reciprocal of the liquid asset ratio , i.e. th . ( ) . |
| 13 | If the time taken to execute cycle of delay routine is T1 and the time occupied in changing excitation , updating and position count and moving the delay pointer is l " 2 , then , for a delay value d , the time between excitation changes is : which is the reciprocal of the instantaneous stepping rate : T1 and T2 are fixed by the number of processor instruction cycles required to execute the corresponding sections of software . |
| 14 | Again , we choose the matrix A of Equation ( 2.2.1.4 ) : ( i ) The leading minor of order 1 , b1 , is the element 6 : reciprocal 1/6. ( ii ) Using ( i ) , we apply the formulae ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) to find the reciprocal of the leading minor of order 2 , viz : unc Here unc and we deduce unc ( iii ) We now use this result to examine the third order minor unc Then unc similarly , unc Also unc Note that , in Equations ( 4 ) which we now evaluate , unc is a matrix of rank 1 . |
| 15 | But it was usually Billy who finished up with the lesser of the two . |
| 16 | In the Old Testament , Job alludes to the moon 's power over the human soul and there is another reference in Gen. i. 16 which refers to the moon as the lesser of the two great lights of heaven . |
| 17 | But a spokesman for the board said they could no longer afford the costs of the small schools and the transfer charges were the lesser of the two . |
| 18 | Eubank 's next fight is a much hyped challenge for Nigel Benn 's World Boxing Organisation title , the lesser of the four world crowns . |
| 19 | Comminges was one of the lesser of the old Pyrenean counties , without the prestige or the influence of Bigorre or Foix-Béarn . |
| 20 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 21 | The immature Greenland whitefront , for instance , is accidentally confused with the immature of the European subspecies . |
| 22 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | As Dr Jaffery pointed out , the British of the last century must take much of the blame for this . |
| 24 | ‘ The five survivors in the CR 42 formation were swinging to their right towards and below me , which made it difficult to attack the three planes nearest me , so I chose the outer of the two planes on their left , laid off a deflection and opened fire again . |
| 25 | The central of the three portals is sculptured in a masterly manner with birds above the capitals ( 417 and PLATE 47 ) and with columns supported on the backs of crouching ( rather worn ) lions . |
| 26 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 27 | AT a public election meeting held in St Luke 's Church Hall , Ferryhill , on Sunday , March 29 , I asked the following of the three candidates . |
| 28 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 29 | The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true . |
| 30 | It is the basis in the sense that each of the dependent conditionals rests on some independent conditional and a further premiss related to the antecedent of the independent conditional . |